The 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft
Systems, ICUAS'18, will be held on June 12-15, 2018 in the
Dallas Marriott City Center that is situated in the heart of
a vibrant Arts District area. Detailed information about the
Hotel and its facilities may be
found here.

The Conference spans four days. June 12 will be a
Workshop/Tutorial day, followed by a three-day technical
Conference on June 13-15. Judging from the interest ICUAS
has drawn over the past eight years and its growth, ICUAS'18
is expected to attract high numbers of participants from
academia, industry, federal and state agencies, government,
the private sector, users, practitioners and engineers, who
wish to be affiliated with and contribute technically to
this highly demanding and evolving and expanding
field. ICUAS'18 is fully sponsored by the ICUAS Association,
which is a non-profit organization. Information about the
Association may be found at www.icuas.com.

The theme of ICUAS'18 will be twofold:

UAS/RPAS design for assured autonomy

Regulations, policy and law to enable UAS/RPAS technologies

The main novelty of ICUAS'18 is a separate track on
regulations, policy, legal and ethical issues that are
essential to allow for integration of UAS/RPAS in the
national airspace. National and international organizations,
agencies, industry, military and civilian authorities are
working towards defining roadmaps of UAS expectations,
technical requirements and standards that are prerequisite
to their full utilization, as well as legal, policy and
ethical issues. The next generation of UAS is expected to be
used for a wide spectrum of civilian and public domain
applications. Challenges to be faced and overcome include,
among others, see-and-avoid systems, robust and
fault-tolerant flight control systems, payloads,
communications, levels of autonomy, manned-unmanned swarms,
network-controlled swarms, as well as challenges related to
policies, procedures, regulations, safety, risk analysis
assessment, airworthiness, certification issues, operational
constraints, standardization and frequency management, all
of paramount importance, which, coupled with 'smart',
'environmentally friendly' cutting edge technologies will
pave the way towards full integration of UAS with manned
aviation and into the respective national airspace.

ICUAS'18 aims at bringing together different groups of
qualified military and civilian representatives worldwide,
organization representatives, funding agencies, industry and
academia, to discuss the current state of UAS advances, and
the roadmap to their full utilization in civilian and public
domains. Special emphasis will be given to current and
future research opportunities, and to 'what comes next' in
terms of the essential technologies that need to be utilized
to advance further UAS. Conference topics include:

Topics of Interest

ICUAS'18 topics of interest include, but will not be be limited to:

Airspace Control

Integration

See/Sense-Detect-and-Avoid Systems

Airspace Management

Interoperability

Security

Airworthiness

Levels of Safety

Sensor Fusion

Autonomy

Manned/Unmanned Aviation

Smart Sensors

Biologically Inspired UAS

Micro- and Mini- UAS

Standardization

Certification

Networked UAS

Technology Challenges

Control Architectures

Payloads

Training

Energy Efficient UAS

Path Planning and Navigation

UAS Applications

Environmental Issues

Regulations

UAS Communications

Fail-Safe Systems

Reliability of UAS

UAS Testbeds

Frequency Management

Risk Analysis

UAS Transportation Management (UTM)

Unmanned system autonomy, collaboration and coordination,
formation control, validation and verification and unmanned
system design for assured autonomy, are topics of great
interest to ICUAS'18.

Through Keynote addresses, round table panel discussions and
presentations, it is expected that the outcome of the
Conference will be a clear understanding of what industry,
military, civilian, national/international authorities need,
and what are the crucial next steps that need to be
completed before UAS are utilized in everyday life
applications.